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Adolph Lewiso
Lewisohn HEBREW UNIVERSITY Oscar Straus Back [Sa ys World's Task
U. S. SUPREME COURT (inspired Of Starting
RABBINIC VISITORS
Cottage System]
Is Labor for Pence
Is 75 Years Old GETS $100000 GIFT From Peace Tour
ORDERS DEPORTING
DESCRIBE PLIGHT
OF RABBI'S FAMILY
FROM F M WARBURG
OF NOTED SCHOOLS
, Noted Philanthropist Honored
At Institution Founded by
Ilk Efforts.
Judgment in Gottlieb Case Re-
verses Decision of Low-
er Court.
CONG. SABATH WOULD
OBVIATE TRAGEDIES
Introduces Retroactive Bill Af-
fecting Many Already
In Country.
PLEASANTVILLE, N. Y.--In the
presence eef several thousand guests
a great ovation was tendered tee
Adolph Lewisohn, noted philanthree
pint, on the eve of his seventy-fifth
birthday at the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society Home at Pleasant-
ville. Mr. Lewisohn is president of
the society. It was largely through
his insistence that the orphan child
needs the environment of a home
more than any one thing that the
cottage plan was created at Pleas-
antville. Mr. Lewisohn was 75 years!
old on May 27.
Rabbi Stephen Wise, Judge Samuel
D. Levy; Joseph Butenvdeser,
president of the Federation for the,
Support of Jewish Philanthropic So-
cieties of New York City; Herman
W. Block, chairman of administration
of the Guardian and Sheltering So-
ciety; Bird S. Coler, Commissioner of
Public Welfare of Manhattan, and
Dr. Leon W. Goldrich, executive di-
rector of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society, were among the
speakers at a luncheon given in Mr.
Lewisohn's honor.
Mr. Block said that by cee-operat-
ing with the recently created Jewish
children's clearing bureau of the Fed-
eration for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies, many fami-
lies were, aided financially see that
children "who might otherwise be-
come permanent institutional wards"
were being kept in their own homes.
Need Will Continue.
"There, will always he a need," he
continued, "leer institutional care of
Jewish dependent children in a com-
munity such as New York City with
its many problems and difficulties
'tech as are not meet with in any other
city in the, United States."
The board of directors in their an-
nual report, which was read, also em-
phasized the policy of the placing of
children in foster homes. The, report
said: "Two years ago the directors
of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society unanimously adopted the
progressive social policy advocated by
the, leading social workers of America
ever since the epoch-making Roose-
velt conference on chile! welfare in
1 On9, that wherever and whenever
possible normal dependent children,
particularly those under the age of
la, he placed in private foster homes
carefully selectee! and adequately su-
pervised."
Mr. Lewisohn supplemented this by
saying:
"We are gratified to avain report
there has not been a single death
among the children under our care
and the cases of illness have been ex-
ceptionaly few."
Rabbi Wise praised the philanthro-
pic work of Mr. I.ewisohn and added:
"No chile! ought to be denied the
higher education because he is poor
and I would take hundreds of the
rich young loafers out of college and
put hundreds of the children of the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
in their place. In all colleges there
are too many loafers."
Former Ambassador Belie \ es r
Palestine Is on Road tea
Prosperity.
Banker and Wife Specify Fund
II
For History-Religion
Department.
PLANS FOR SYNAGOGUE
IN JERUSALEM MADE •
Financier Approves Project
For Establishing House
Of Worship.
WASHINGTON.—Rabbi Solomon
NEW YORK—Felix M. Warburg,
Gottlieb, who has charge of a congre-
who recently returnee! from Palestine
gation in New York, lost his fight for
enthusiastic over the possibilities of I
his wife, Gittol Gottlieb, and his son,'
the Hebrew University on Mount a
Israel, who, under the decision of the
Scopus, near Jerusalem, announced
Supreme Court, must be deported in
that he and Mrs. Warburg had given
compliance with the immigration
$100,000 for a department of Jewish
laws.
history and religion in the school. Mr.
Mrs. Gottlieb, at the age of 24, and
Warburg also revealed a keen inter-
Israel, 4, arrived at Ellis Island Dec.
est in the establishment eef a suitable
27, 1921, and were ordered back to
synagogue in Jerusalem. Ile said he
Palestine, whence they came, but
was gratified over the plans, of the!
were permitted to land on a decision
United Synagogue eef America toward,
ADOLPH LEWISOHN
of the United States District Court
that end.
of the Southern District of New York.
Dr. Elias Solomon, president of the
The Supreme Court reversed the Dis-
United Synagogue, when questioned
trict Court and the Court of Appeals
about the organization's plans, said
and upheld the contention of the im-
that its secretary, Rabbi Samuel
rnigTation office that Mrs. Gottlieb
Cohen, left last week for Palestine.;
and baby boy must be returned to
Ile has been asked by the permanent
their native land,
Palestine committee of that derganiz-
ation, said Dr. Solomon, to seek a
Family Faces Separation.
suitable site in Jerusalem, preferably
Supreme Caurt officials said Mrs. Milford Stern Says Meager Re-
near the university, for the erection
Gottlieb and son will he turned over
sults Menace Numerous
eef a synagogue.
to the ('moot loner of Immigration
While the plans for such a build-' .
Waiting
Patients,
at New York for deportation. This
Ina have not he-en formulated, the de- a
may result in an interesting situation
vision having been reached only two
Reports
indicating
that
the
slow
as the Gottlevies have been together
weeks ago, Dr. Solomon expressed
progress marking the campaign for
since early in 1922.
the hope that American Jews would,
Rabbi Gottlieb had resided in New $350,000 carried on by the National
be able ultimately to make this con-
York 14 months before his family Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in
trihution tee Palestine's religious de-
Denver
would
retard
the
plans
of
the
came, and declared his intention to
velopment.
institution
to
erect
a
new
building
become a citizen of the United States
Rabbi Solomon said he hoped it
to accommodate Ino additil
ona pa-
on their arrival here.
would be' possible, to build the house,
tients
were
receives'
by
Milford
Stern,
Mrs. Gottlieb and child were given
of
worship
near the university site tee
a hearing before a board of special chairman of the drive , in Detroit. Mr.
attract to the services students at
inquiry, representing the, Department Stern conununicateel to his lieuten-
the
college
need at the same time di-,
of Labor, and were excluded upon ants the , fact that the, Denver hospital
reef to it residents of Jerusalem who
the ground that they had conic to the was facing an embarrassing situation
would
event
to attend a decorous
United States in violation of the and urged them tee redouble their ef-
house of prayer.
"quota law" of May 19, 1921, in that forts to make Detroit's contribution
Mr.
Warburg.
in an interview, said
they were from a country whose sultantial.
that of all things he saw in Palestine
Patients Are Waiting.
quota had been tilled. The Secretary
the nicest disheartening was the ab-
of Labor affirmed this decision.
"The men who are gathering the
sence of synagogues. In a country.
A writ of habeas corpus was grant- funds for the National Jewish Hos-
where Jewish learning and culture,
ee! by the United States District pital," said Mr. Stern, "know how
had their birth, where the Hebrew I
Court. Judge Julian IV. Mack, very vital is the need for the addi-
prophets and sages made their con- !
United States Circuit Judge, sus- tional building, They are , conveying
tributions to Jewish literature and a
tained the writ and entered an order to the Jewish public the fact that
where the great Temple of Solomon'
discharging the aliens from the cus- more than 100 patients have their
stood, Mr. Warburg said be found'
tody of the immigration officers and applications on file for admittance
missing any semblance of a dignified
directing that they be admitted to and others are coming in all the time.
Jewish temple.
the United States.
Many of these patients have passed
Throughout the Holy Land, and
the early stages of the disease. The
Taken to Highest Court.
even in Jerusalem, Mr. Warburg de-1
dared congregations worship in
An appeal was taken by the Com- new building is planned to meet the,
small rooms and halls, similar to the !
missioner of Immigration to the Cir- dire situation which confronts not
improvised synagogues that crop up
cuit Court of Appeals for the Second only the hospital but the, Jews of
ire New York for New Year's and Day!
Circuit, and the decree of the District America. I have faith that Detroit
Jews
will
come
forward
with
eager
of Atonement services. Beauty, dig-I
Court was affirmed. The case then
pity and, in some cases even cleanli-
was appealed to the Supreme Court., interest and subscribe their utmost
ness, are sadly lacking, he said.
The Circuit Court of Appeals had to the un .
"A synagogue of architectural
More Contributions.
held that the immigration act of May
grandeur,"
Mr. Warburg said, "would
The
following
is
a
supplementary
19, 1921, "properly construed, should
do much toward advancing, and in
include within the exceptions from list of contributions trade up to
sonic
cases
instilling a Jewish re-
the quota provisions the wife and June 3:
ligious interest. Excavations which
children under 16 years of age of a Joseph Beckenstein, $250; Ed. Ro-
have
been
made
in the Holy I.and
minister," This, the Supreme Court senthal, $150; Adolph Finsterwald,
have to some extent revived a Jewish
Hannah Goldberg, I. Rosenberg,
denied.
interest," said Mr. Warburg, "but
The ease, as the evidence shows," Charles Hopp, Harry Frank, Arthur
, they have neither been extensive
the court here held, "is one of pens- II. Schwartz, Sisterhood of Temple
I enough nor have the discoveries been
Beth El, Adolph Freund, Jennie II.
liar and distressing hardships."
suciently fascinating to arouse the
• • •
Oppenheint, Mrs. Henry NI. Fee-
imaginations of some of the Jewish
heimer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Re-
INTRODUCES MEASURE
population there.
senzweig„ each $100; Robert L. Ito-
TO AFFECT 20.000 PERSONS
The very absence of any building
s on, 75; It' b Ail Max May, Ju-
W A S HINGTON. — Congressman lius Bing and wife, Edwin Goldberg, Denies Jews Were Killed But of dignity belonging to the Jews has
Adolph Sabath of Chicago has intro• I. C. Brown and wife, Maurice and
among other reasons caused me to
Says They Were "Only
duced a bill in the House of Retire- Isaac lireifus, Enid Ilayn, Ben Jacob,
take an interest in the development
Wounded."
sentatives permitting the permanent Louis Lip-on, A. Bard, Charles N.
eef the Ilebrew University, which will
residence in the United States of int. Agree, N. Davies,
tee situation upon a beautiful site on
vies, Mx
ar Market Com-
migrants who were temporarily ad- pany, Jeaeph Modell, IV (Hain F'ried-
BECHAREST.—(.1. T. A.) —"Nee Mount Scopus.
mitted under the provisions of the man, Stein cold d Sons, I. I.. Scheini- Jews were killed, they were only
present immigration law which ex- man, Robinson-Cohen Company, each wounded." This is the statement
empts the wives and off spring of im- $50; Jacob Jay, Henry Levitt, B. G. made by the Roumanian under-sacra-
migrants belonging to special occu- Arden, Ilarry Meirwil, Wetsmne
ten y
State, Tartarescu in reply to to
the Shatzen, Joseph Sieged and wife, question put tee him by the semi-of-
pational classes not included in th
quotas. The bill was introduced as Isaac Sillman, Milton Herman. Wal- tidal Roumanian newspaper, Aver-
a result of the decision of the United lace Rosenheine, ()small E. Fisher,
as to whether the reports of the
States Supreme Court overruling the Nathan Simons, Sidney Stone, Harold anti-Semitic excesses in Transylvania
lower Federal courts in the Gottlieb Byron and wife, Louis Duseaff, J. were correct.
Former Ambassador Describes
case. Congressman Sahath's meas- Friedberg. Louis Rosenthal, Aloe Sil-
Yoder-Secretary Tartarescu declar-
Relief Work Among
ure is intended to bring relief to herberg, Cadillac Electric Company, eel that the government has official
'
Refugees.
about 20,000 immigrants who face Harry Jacobson Can! Company, each knowledge of the occurrence's, but
deportation as a result of the Su- $25; George Cohen. Karl B. Segall, that they have been much exagge-
preme Court ' s decision. Secretary of each $20; Simon & Leeman, $15; Ike rated.
'
NEW YOBK.—The Greeks of New
labor Davis is said to favor the hill. yids, Lou Berman, Irving Oberfeleler,
The seriousness of the situation can York and the Near East Relief gave
. • •
David B. Werbe, Carrie B. Schneider, be judged, however, ley the fact that a dinner jointly in honor of Henry
CALLS SITUATION CREATED
Morris %acid, Harry Perlis, Mrs. the Prime Minister Brantianu has Morgenthau May 27 in the Hotel
BY DECISION "INHUMAN"
Jennie Blunmosen, M. Bayer, Louis called a special conference at Ruche- Astor, in recognition of the work he
NEW YORK. — The New York Cohane, M. J. Cogan, Ike Applebaum, rest of all the Roumanian police com- accomplished in Greece during the
World, in an editorial entitled "Cor- D. Levin, Rebecca Fleischman, Fred missioners in Transylvania, Baku- past six months as League of Nations
recting An Inhuman Situation," A. Ginsburg. Murphy Wall Bed Com- wine and Besarahia for the purpose Commissioner.
Mr. Morgenthau told how Greece
urges the immediate passing of the pany, William B. Isenberg, Emanuel at "considering the situation in those
was compelled to appeal to the League
Wodic, Charles Blonmaarden, Morris provinces."
Sabath bill. It says:
•••
of Nations for help in settling the
"Only by special act of Congress IS dilative, Mrs. Celia Mayer, Robert
refugee problem. When the Turkish
can relief be had for the aliens fac- Marwal Louis Cohn, Sol A. Wolff, POGROMS ARE SPREADING
ing deportation as a result of the each 810; II. Stillman, Barney Wets- THROUGH SEVERAL PROVINCES army under Mustafa Kemal de.
VIENNA.— 1.1. T. A.) — The pee- tested the Greeks in Asia Minor and
United States Supreme Court's de- man, Dellis Horowitz, Ira Robinson,
cision overruling the lower Federal Setta Robinson, Ilenrietta Robinson, seroms against the Jewish population burned Smyrna in August, 1922,
courts in the Gottlieb case. Repre- Sam Wetsman, Mrs. M. Rosenfield, I. in Roumania, are not only continuing 1,250,000 Greek refugees fled into
sentative Sabath of Illinois, himself Margolis, A. Barack, S. K. Slopin, to spread throughout Transylvania, Greece. They constituted one-fifth
an immigrant once, has introduced Curt Weinberg. Mrs. Henry Stillman, but also through the provinces of of the whole Greek population and
such a bill. It has the approval of A. Glazer, Louis II. Goldberg, a Banat, Moldava and Bukowina. they needed everything.
The League of Nations responded
u In the town of Luges, the synagogue
Secretary of Labor Davis. It should each $5.
. was surrounded during the morning to the Greek appeal with a plan for
be passed.
prayers and demolished. The Zion- settling the refugees on undeveloped
"It is a mistake to suppose that
ist committee, which organized a Jew- lands in Grecian Macedonia, so they
this decision affects only a compara- LAUNCHES CONTEST
tively small number of very recent
FOR SHORT PLAYS ish self-defense body', was arrested might eventually support themselves.
immigrants. The litigation leading
and will be tried by court martial in As former American Ambassador to
up to the decision extends over sev-
NEW YORK.—The leaush Wel- Gra iowa. Turkey, Mr. Morgentau was asked by
eral years. It affects not merely hun- fare Board has announced a prize a In the city of !Maids, the Jewish the League tee be chairman of its
dreds of late arrivals but many thou- contest for one and twee-act plays merchants who were assembled for the Refugee Settlement Commission.
sands who have months since been dealing with Jewfish themes and suit- weekly fair day were attacked and The work of the commission has
admitted and have established homes able for production by senior casts. murderously beaten. In the cities of gone ahead so well that the Bank of
in the United States. They are, for Three prizes, a $200, $150 and $100, Barlad and Bacau, the Jewish stores England has just backed the result
with loans to Greece equivalent to
the most part, women and children— respectively, are to be awarded to were set afire and demolished.
the wives and offspring of specified the authors of the best three plays
In the city of Temesvar, 1R Jews $10,000,000 to equip the refugees
pa
l
ace
with
farming implements and other
occupational classes exempt from the submitted.
were seriously wounded. The
quota restrictions of the immigration
The contest closes Aug. 1,5 and the of the Jewish president of the Manu- , necessities.
The
Greek Minister, Michael Tsa-
law. They came and were admitted winners will be chosen by three corn- torturers Association in Banat Was
rnados, thanked Mr. Morgenthau in
in good faith under the rulings of the peten j udges, • b e demolished .
Few Rumanian papers have arrived ' the name of his government, and the
lower Federal courts. Are they fair- ' made public in due time. There is
ly or justly punishable with enforced no restriction as to eligibility for par- here lately. The Rumanian govern- Greek Consul General of New York,
rent has closed the frontier to the ex. Constantine Xanthopoulos, spoke in
separation from their husbands and ticipation.
fathers and deportation because the
The announcement of the play con- port of liberal papers, no that the out- in the name of the Greeks of this
Supreme Court now decides that test follows the decision reached at side world should be prevented from city,
In addition to praising the work of
those lower court rulings were er- the last convention of the Jewish learning shat i s
Mr. Morgenthau, it was explained by
•
•
Omen .
Welfare Board. It is expected that
'James
L. Barton, chairman of the
It is a question which answers it- through this contest end similar ef- DISPUTES DENIAL MADE
Near East Relief, and by Charles V.
self. The United States has not yet forts to be launched by the board, BY ROUMANIAN MINISTER
Vickrey,
general secretary, that pro.
•
•
•
been given over to the unsocial and valuable Jewish material may be
unnatural business of regulating im- made available, to supplement that
LONDON.-1.1. T. A.)—The Jew-, Tress is being made by the props'.
in
a
,
guide
organized
recently at the
migration on the basis of subverting already compiled by the board for WI Telegraphic Agency here is
and tearing to pieces the family re- the use of its constituent societies.
renition to state that despite the de- Bankers' Club to remind the entire
world
of
International
Golden Ride
lation. The new immigration law, to
Information regarding the rules nial of the Rumanian Minister to the I
take effect July 1, corrects the pres- may be secured from the Jewish Wel- United States, Prince Bibescon, the re-I S unday, Dec. 7, when everybody will
be
invited
to
contribute
to the Near
ent law in this particular. But it hie fare Board, 352 Fourth avenue, New
East Relief.
(Turn to last page.)
York
City.
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DECLARES HOSPITAL
PLAN ENDANGERED
ROUMANIA ADMITS f i
MASSACRE WAVE
PRAISE MORGENTHAU
FOR GREEK SERVICE
_ --
NEW YORK.--Oscar S. Straus,
former ambassador to Turkey, re-
turned last Saturday on the Cunarder
Berengaria after a four and a half
months' trip tee the Near East. Ile
was accompanied by Mrs. Straus and
their Son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Straus.
The former diplomat went to Pales-
tine at the request of the Federated
Council of the Churches of Christ in
America, to help restore harmony
among the religious sects. The invi-
tation was sent by Sir Herbert Sam-
uel, British Iliah Commissioner.
Mr. Straus also crossed the Jordan
river and had a conference at Amen I
with Ilussein, King of Arabia.
"King Hussein told me," said Mr. I
Straus, "that he ought to rule nv
Palestine and Syria, intimating that
the United States supported his'
claims to those regions. I told him
he was entirely wrong, as the Bal-
four Declaration regarding Palestine
had been approved by a joint resolu-
tion of Congress which the President
of the United States had signed.
Talks Pointedly to Hussein.
"I also told him Palestine had proa
eressed more in five years under the
Ilritish mandate than in five, centuries
under the rule eef the Arabs steel the
Ottoman Empire. Order had been
established and every one could walk
the high roads without fear of at-
tack. When I crossed into Trans-
jordania every Arab on a camel, don-
key, license, or on foot that I met had
a gun slung at his back. I impressed
upon King Hussein that before seek-,
ina fresh dominions to rule over he',
had better show to the world that he
ans capable of governing properly,
the country assigned to him under
the treaty'."
Mr. Straus said Damianos, the Or-j
thodox Greek Patriarch in Jerusalem,'(
was in full accord with the purposes
if his mission to Palestine to bring
harmony between the seven Christian
sects, the Jews and the Arabs, and
gave him a declaration in writing that
he would due his best to bring about
harmony. The .Armenian I'alriarch
and the Archbishop eef Jordania ex-I
similar sentiments.
He visited 62 Jewish agrarian calm ;
tiles and was greatly impressed with
their development. The colonists were
like the pioneers in America, who
worked with a Bible in one hand and
at plow in the other. Ile thought the
type of immigration was of a high
order.
When told of President Coolidge's
stand on the World Court in his Me- a
menial Day address Mr. Straus said:!
"I am in favor of our entering the
World Court under the plan advo-
cated by Mr. Harding and President!
Coolidge. I regard the Lodge plan ,
for a World Court as a means of
wrecking the present court. It is ab-
surd to believe, that the court metals- a
lished and approved by 52 nations,
will he overthrown tee satisfy Mr. I
Lodge's destructive criticism."
HADASSAH RENAMES ,
MOST OF OFFICERS
Leaders in Previous Year's
Work Will Continue
Activities.
At the annual meeting of the De-
troit Chapter of Hadassah held May
27 at the Shaarey Zwick Synagogue,
Miss Hattie Gittleman was re-elected
president. Other efficers who .were
re-elected are Miss Blume Levin, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Jacob S.
Sa u Is, corresponding secretary; lel iss
Rose Weinstein, financial secretary;
and Miss Jeanette Steinberg, treasure
er. New officers elected at the meet-
ing are Mrs. Louis N. Hallestein, first
vice-president; Shea David R. Stock.
er, second vice-president; Miss Bertha
Lipsita assistant carresponaling secre-
tary; and Mrs. Noah E. Aronstam,
auditor. Mrs. Morris Friedberg, Mrs.
E. II. Saulson and Miss Elizabeth
Finley were elected tee fill vacancies
on the beard of directors, whaeh in-
eludes Mesdames Joseph II. Ehrlich,
Charles Robinson, M. II. Zackheim,
Samuel Kavanau, Jacob Burke, Meyer
M. Applebaum, (labile Sarasohn, Al.
beet Feldstein, Max Dushkin, Harry
Frank, Beeniamin Krell, Harry Brown,
and the Misses Julia Wine, Jeanette
Steinberg and Eva Werbe. Mesdames
A. M. Hershman, David W. Simons
and J. Feldman were re-elected hon-
orary members of the board,
'Nils of Campaier..
Mrs, Joseph Ehrlich, chairman of
the Hadassah campaign for funds to
support the Medical Unit in Palestine,
reported on the progress of the drive.
She said that the campaign is being
carried on energetically and that the
objective the chapter hopes to reach
will be nought until it is achieved.
In a review of the work being ac-
complished in Palestine by the Ha-
dassah organization, Mrs. Jacob Sends
declared that of 2,800 Jewish babies
born in the II oly Land, 2,000 came in-
tee the world amid the healthful con-
ditions created by the various
branches of the Hadassah medical
service.
Young daughters of Hadassah mem-
bers have teen nrganiu into Aug •
tern of Umfassen" by Mrs. Goldsmith
and Mrs. Joseph Ehrlich. This branch
is for the purpose of interesting young
girls between the ages of 12 and 1f1 in
the work of the organization, es that
they can become active members of
the senior chapter when they become
older.
LEMBERG ZIONISTS VICTORIOUS
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—Elections
to the Jewish Kehillah in the several
election districts of Lemberg resulted
in complete victories for the Zionists.
Rabbi Kook and Dean Epstein
Discra Peril Facing
Jewish Spirit.
LOCAL JEWS ANSWER
APPEAL FOR FUNDS
Scholars Declare Future of
Jewish Religion En-
dangered.
RABBI A. M. HERSHMAN
PREPARE FOR PEACE,
IS HERSHMAN PLEA
Rabbi Declares Sacrifices Are
Imperative For True
Amity.
Rabbi A. M. Hershman of Shimmy
•edek Synagogue, in his Memorial
Day address in the chapel of the can.;
gregation's cemetery in Clover II ill
Park last Friday afternoon, declared a
that the imperative need of the times
was an enthusiasm for peace rather
lhnn fur
, that it wars rccn uwr,
essential to prepare for peace than to
prepare for War.
"It is sweet to live for ore's coun-
try," said Itabbi Hershman, "whereas
tee die for one's country lb very often
an easy thing. America is a country
which deserves that its citizens should I
live for it."
"Memorial Day inspires edit memorl
lea of an ideal which found its ex- a
pre:ashen in the sacrifices made so that
the Union might he preserved and
slavery abolished. The Civil War was
fought for a principle. Men died in
obedience not only to the laws of the
country but to the laws of Cad.
Thousands of New Graven.
"But there are new memories that
Memorial Day conjures up. Tens of I
thousands of new graves are visited
annually and oftener by the affection-
ate relatives of departed youths. The
blood which was shed was theirs; ours
are the tears.
"If the tribute which is offered tee
these fallen soldiers is genuine, more
than lip service, our lives must be giv-
en to the ideal to which they gave up
their lives."
The rabbi said that American young
men toed( seriously the contention that
the avowed purpose of the late war'
was to end war. They fell in the be-
lief that they were hastening the end '
of autocracy and ushering in a nobler
social and political order.
"But the war that was to end war
resulted in a peace that ended peace
and all prospects of pence. r-
ism now holds the world in its grip.
It speaks in the name of the Constitu-
tion and would suppress free speech
and the inalienable rights which the
Constitution articulately expresses.
Hence it is that all who have vision
must band together to remove the mil -
itarist menace that Can fronla Amer-
ica and the rest of human it y."
Ruin Is Rampant.
Pointing tee the ruin and chaos
which is rampant throughout the
world as the handiwork of militarism,
['Mad Hershman said that the mili-
tarists, who declare that bed is on the
side of the mightiest arms, ha, fail-
eel miserably and that the nest weer
will end war because it will annihilate
civilization.
deleted,
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MAY SOON ANNOUNCE
SCHOLARSHIP t, WARD
Person Chosen to Co Training in
Journalise
After a thorough isquiry into the
. qualifications of the asoliAnts for
, the scholarship offer ! U•y The De-
troit Jewish atone!, Scholarship
Fund, the board of tru-tees will, It is
expected, announce in the forthcom-
ing issue of The Jewish
Chronicle the wine, ef the award,
according to Arthur E. I ixel, chari-
man of the board, 'lee. ether mem-
bers of the board are Judzk. Harry B.
Heiden, Rabbis A. lel, Hershman and
Henry J. Berkowitz, NI, I.. Prensky
and Jesse F. Hirschn,,,e.
Project Approved.
When the estate .henent of the
fund was announced four months
ago, approving inter e st was displayed
a by students and persons active in the
development of the communal life
of the city. Endorsement of the pro-
ject also came from other parts of
the country. Walter Lipp man, editor
of the New Republic and of the New
I York World, declared that those who
conceived the plan to establish the
fund performed "a work of the great-
est public service."
Among the purposes of the fund
are to enable men and women who
desire to make journalism their life's
work to secure a thorough journalis-
tic training, and to assist in raising
the ethical and professional standards
of the newspaper man's calling.
Chief Rabbi Abraham I. Kook of
Palestine and Rabbi Mordecai M. Ep-
stein, dean of the Slobodka Rabbini-
cal Academy, recognized an two of the
greatest Jewish leaders in contempor-
ary life, were the guests of Detroit
Jews from May 29 to June 2, during
which they brought to the attention
of the kid community the needs of
the religious schools and academies in
the various countries of Europe and
in Palestine. The rabbis made it clear
that upon the generosity of the Jews
of America depended the fate of the
Jewish religion and Jewish knowledge
en the
countries in eastern
Europe,
Al the banquet given in the visitors'
honor Thursday evening, May 29, at
the Philadelphia and Byron avenue
Talmud Torah, at which nearly 400
persons were present, Daniel A. Brown
s Me presided, explained the mission
of the two rabbis. Ile said that, hay-
[Jig seen at first hand the conditions
under which the religious and educa-
tional institutions in Europe were en.
deavoring tee function, he could easily
present the needs which brought the
scholars to this country.
Study in Mud Cellar.
"In Russia, where the law practical-
ly forbids the study of Judaism, the
religious teachers and their pupils un-
dergo perils in order to keep the flame
of Judaism burning. In the city of
Smargon I saw children taught in
mull-cellar covered with tin cans.
Though starving to death and suffer-
ing from disease and neglect, the
teachers and their pupils thought of
their souls and minds first."
Mr. Brown said he met great men
and tine spirits among the Jews with
whom he came in contact during his
tour of Europe.
"Often they told me that America
saved not only their lives but their
souls. In my judgment the biggest
thing we did wan to rescue the Jewish
' spirit from extinction in those horror-
stricken, chaotic countries. If we are
tee stop now, we might just as well not
have begun. It is our duty to finish
the work we' undertook several years
ago. We must not desert the genera-
then now growing up and the institu-
tions which are nurturing their Jew-
ish minds and souls. We must not
tire."
Describing Rabbi Kook's leaving
Palestine at a time when he was
greatly needed in his own country as
a great personal sacrifice, Mr. Brown
declared that the only way American
Jews could honor the leader of Pales-
tinian Jewry would be to honor the
mission which brought him here.
American Jews on Trial.
"The Jews of America are on trial,"
said Mr. Brown, "We either must
measure up to our historic tasks or
we, must bow our heads in shame. We
must noel our responsibility as Jews.
The world has only contempt for Jews
who are Jews only by accident of
birth, and rightly so. Our honor is in
jeopardy. If the schools and academ-
ies in Europe and Palestine close
down, even partially, it will be because
we in America are indifferent and not
regnimnt of our faithful obligation.
"Theme who give are happy in giv-
ing, Only who hesitate to give
became
The leader in the American Jewish
Relief drive declared that he always
insisted that a goodly portion eef the
meow), raised for relief purposes
should go to religious work.
Rabbi Judah L. Levin of Detroit
said that men like Rabbi Kook and
Italibi Epstein were the veritable mes-
sengers of Elijah in that they were
preparing for the spiritual rejuvena-
tion of the Jewish spirit throughout
the world.
Judaism at Stake.
"The question which the Jewish peo-
ple must heed," Rabbi Levin said,
"is a world question. We stand on
the threshold of a great but mysteri-
ous era. If we save the Jewish spirit,
we shall have won the gratitude of
Jewish history. To live or not to live
es J ews, is the problem which con-
fronts us. The spirit of Judaism is
at stake."
The principal speaker was Rabbi
Epstein. Ile said that, like Joseph,
the Jews of America were in this
country in order to preserve the lives
and the spirit of their unhappy breth-
ren in Europe. The remnant of Jew-
ry in the stricken countries looks to
America for material and moral en-
couragement.
Rabbi Epstein, with hundreds of
his pupils, went from one city to an-
other during the war in order to rain
a respite for the study of the law.
Historians of the Jewish tragedy in
the world war declare Rabbi Epstein's
sacrifices for the welfare of his stu-
dents to have been of the essence of
nobility. After years of wandering,
the dean and his colleagues and stu-
dents are again situated in the great
academy in Slobcdka, Lithuania.
Compeasation of History.
"Often do I wonder at the repeated
evidence of divine justice and com-
pensation in history," said Rabbi Ep-
stein. "Spain, which thrust out its
Jewish inhabitants after pouring out
its bitter hatred upon our ancestors—
that very Spain it was that sponsor-
ed the discovery of the continent upon
which the fleeing refugees ultimately
were to find rest and opportunity.
"During the recent war American
Jews served as the saving remnant to
the overwhelmed Jews of the eastern
world. You have saved lives and you
(Tara U last pate.)